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Nov 2019
59m 52s

Women in Horror Episode 3: Pregnancy (In...

Sarah Kathryn Cleaver and Mary Wild
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Mary and Sarah get past their fear of having children to explore what’s really so scary about birth in this week’s ‘women in horror’ films - new French extremity film Inside or À l'intérieur (2007) and Darren Aronofsky’s Mother (2017). We discuss the selfishness of creativity, the killing of one’s former self and the horror of abjection. Stick around, you’re safe with us.

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